Links to selected news articles, television interviews etc.

National Geographic Magazine, February 2008, “Drying of the West” by Robert Kunzig
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CBS 60 Minutes, October 21 and December 30, 2007 “The Age of Mega-Fires”, interview by Scott Pelley
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PBS National Public Radio, July 21, 2007 “Hotter, Drier Climate Moves up Sky Islands’ Slopes”, by Ted Robbins (written article and audio interview)
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ABC Radio Nation (Australia) The Science Show, May 2007, “Tree Rings”,with Robyn Williams (interview transcript)
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New York Times, March 27, 2007 “Heat Invades Cool Heights Over Arizona Desert” by Timothy Egan
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Scientific American, December 26, 2006 “Warmer Atlantic, Climate Change Presage More and Worse, Western Wildfires”, by David Biello
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Discover Magazine, June 25, 2006 “Fire in the Sky: Why America’s Ecological Treasures Just Need to Burn”, by Jeff Wheelwright
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USA Today, February 27, 2006, “Parched New Mexico gets a taste of climate change”, by Pat O’Driscoll
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High Country News, January 24, 2005, “Written in the Rings Tree rings reveal the climate of the past — and help foretell the future. Their message? Get ready for hot, dry times”, by Michelle Nijhuis
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PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, October 7, 2003, “Western Drought”, (interview by Ted Robbins, transcript, and link to streaming video)
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Time Magazine, August 16, 2004 “Why the West is Burning”, by Madeleine Nash
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Time Magazine, August 18, 2003 “Fireproofing the Forests”, by Madeleine Nash
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ScienceDaily, October 5, 2000 “Plan Fires Timed To La Nina Or El Nino Years, University Of Arizona Tree-Ring Lab Director Urges”
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GeoTimes, December 2000, “Pyro babies” by Meg Rudolph
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BioScience, May 2000, “Reading between the lines: Dendrochronologists find that the past is still present in tree rings” by Scott Norris
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New York Times, May 11, 1996 “In Sick, Crowded Ponderosa Forests of West, Seeds of Infernos Lie Ominously in Wait”, by George Johnson
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New York Times, December 1, 1992, “In Unexpected Places, Clues to Ancient and Future Climate; Warming? Trees Say Not Yet” by Natalie Angier
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New York Times, September 1990, “Science Watch; Fires and Climate”
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